By Lucy Ferriss. My admiration for the writer Jhumpa Lahiri went up a thousandfold after reading an excerpt from her new book, titled “Teach Yourself Italian,” in this week’s New Yorker. Having been trying to teach myself Italian for the past 18 months, I thought I would find a fellow voyager in Lahiri’s essay. As it turns out, Lahiri became so obsessed with the language that she moved to Italy with her family, something I’ve never contemplated doing. More...
By Lucy Ferriss. For the record, I believe we have a problem on campuses with a persistent, low level, broadly shared, largely unconscious set of prejudices that places an unfair burden on minorities (and, often, women). More...
By Lucy Ferriss. Happy start to cuffing season. Yes, folks, it officially begins today.
I just learned the term cuffing season four days ago, and already I know I cannot talk about it without showing my age. More...
By Lucy Ferriss. When I first heard of a partial zero-emissions vehicle (or PZEV, a fun acronym to say), I wondered if it was a line from a joke. But no. It is a line from a vehicle category designed to circumvent requirements like California’s demand that zero-emissions vehicles be produced by a certain date. More...
The government will make it compulsory for university students to interact in English in order to prepare them to compete in the ASEAN – Association of Southeast Asian Nations – Economic Community, which comes into effect at the start of 2016, reports The Jakarta Post. Read more...
By Mark Herbert. We're a nation full of regret when it comes to losing our language skills, but will we ever change, asks Mark Herbert. Read more...
By Natalie Marsh. President Barack Obama has announced a new initiative to increase the number of K-12 students in the US studying Mandarin over the next five years to one million, in an extension of the 100,000 Strong programme. More...
By Sara Custer. Are girls more proficient in the English language than boys? This is a question researchers from Cambridge English Language Assessment have attempted to answer by looking at thousands of test results from teenagers taking IELTS exams between January 2014 and January 2015. More...
By Sara Custer. The chief executive of English UK, Eddie Byers, passed away suddenly this week the organisation has announced. Byers joined English UK almost two years ago and was instrumental in setting a new, member focused course for organisation’s long-term strategy. More...
By Chris Havergal. The heads of one of South Africa’s leading universities have called for English to become the institution’s “primary language”, after claims that the use of Afrikaans excluded black students. More...
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